September 2007
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Advice on “Personal Statements” for PhD Admissions?
A student applying to graduate school this fall writes: I was hoping you could post something on the Leiter Reports asking the readers (particularly the philosophy professors on grad schools admissions committees) what they expect from a student’s personal statement. As a prospective student, this often seems to be the most elusive part of the…
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The Realities of the Legal Job Market Outside the Ranks of Elite Law Schools
Wall Street Journal story here.
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YLJ “Pocket Part” Symposium on Internet Harassment
Anonymous threats of sexual violence and defamatory statements about female law students on the web site known as "Autoadmit"–about which we have written before–prompted a short symposium in the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part on legal responses to Internet harassment. Bradley Areheart, an attorney with Jenner & Block, makes the most sensible proposal: Given its…
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Most Cited Scholars in Intellectual Property/Cyberlaw since 2000
Earlier this month, I posted the 2007 scholarly impact study of the top 35 law faculties. Using the same data, I’ll post next month lists of most-cited scholars in various fields, as I did a nmber of years ago. Here’s another preview: the "top ten" most cited list for Intellectual Property/Cyberlaw (broadly construed); after each…
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Campus Police Torture Student at the University of Florida for Asking Long Question
Did the campus cops at the University of Florida train at Abu Ghraib? Don’t watch this video if you’re sensitive to the gratuitous infliction of pain on human beings. The "statement" by the University President, J. Bernard Machen, that follows is disgraceful: it’s the worst possible example of administrative mealy-mouthness and lack of perspective I’ve…
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Ave Maria Law School Crisis Continues
While the new law school at the University of California at Irvine has pulled back from the brink of catastrophe, the young Ave Maria Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan continues its downward spiral. The School’s Alumni Association has now called for both the Dean, Bernard Dobranski, and Tom Monaghan, whose (bad) pizza fortune was…
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It turns out I’m not the only one to “break” national news stories anymore…
…since "the Dorf on Law" blog has just reported that "Chemerinsky to Serve As Prime Minister in Power-Sharing Accord With Musharraf." I bet Chancellor Drake brokered this one!
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“Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions”
An update on the book.
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In Fairness to Pepperdine
Robert Pushaw, a highly-regarded federal courts scholar in the law school at Pepperdine University, has written to take me to task for my off-hand remarks in the course of discussing the Starr-at-Pepperdine/Chemerinsky-at-Irvine comparison; he writes: I was disappointed by your negative and factually incorrect comments about Pepperdine. First, you claim that Ken Starr was "a…
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Is Natural Language Philosophically Relevant? (J. Stanley)
I regularly encounter philosophers who are puzzled about how language could be relevant in shedding light on philosophical problems that are not primarily about language. But I have genuine problems understanding their befuddlement. I don’t think of appealing to facts about language as a special kind of methodology. Rather, I think of it as a…
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Shields on Aristotle
Received in the mail, the latest volume in the Routledge Philosophers series I edit is now out: Aristotle by Christopher Shields of Oxford University–that’s in addition to the two other volumes recently announced.
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Philosophy Job Market and Publishing Advice
A useful round-up of links here, courtesy of Aidan McGlynn.
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“Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions”
An update on the book.
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L’Affaire Chemerinsky and Paranoia on the Right
There is a rather curious (though amusing) "round-up" of commentary on L’Affaire Chemerinsky courtesy of the LA Times. It includes various right-wing bloggers congratulating themselves for being so much smarter and more knowledgeable about the law than Erwin Chemerinsky. (Oddly, none of these individuals seem to be on anyone’s list for any real job of…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…